Quotes About Consumerism

The steady advance, and cultural power, of marketing and advertising has caused "the displacement of a political public sphere by a depoliticized consumer culture."21

if social democracy wins, it will be capital that triumphs through the centuries and the working class will fall victim to enforced consumerism.)

A person who has very narrow views of life gives always the importance to the people only through their material assets, clothes and shoes.

A person whose life's objective is driven by the desire to only acquire and enjoy material objects is actually negative to the people.

A popular way to promote something is to ask the people to ban or boycott the same thing via social media post that gets the support of many bought-out netizens

A product that may not be worth buying price Rs.300 can be sold at Rs.1300 or more by getting it endorsed by a self-centred so-called celebrity and via mass publicity. There are many duffers who start purchasing & flaunting it besides saying that it as a brand.

The fact is that the surplus money empties a person's mind and fills junk in his/her heart

The mark of unintelligent people is that they won't buy that they want until it is offered with a big discount and a secretly charged amount

The more a person is self-centric/materialistic in nature, the more the people around him/her are negative/toxic in character.

The more a person loves car, bike or such material ware, the less s/he would truly care about human welfare. Beware always of such people.

the luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

Sex is one of the most interesting things we as humans have to play with, and we've reduced it to polyester underpants and implants. We are selling ourselves unbelievably short.

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

Fake breasts: Women always say, "You know they're not real, don't you? She bought them." Do you know I don't care if they're real? I want to buy some, too. For the house, put them in different rooms. And on the dashboard of the car, for when I'm driving.

It makes no sense in modern life to use our energies to have five cars, five bathrooms, or even five shirts, but we just . . . want them.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.

And 'Queer Eye' is fascinating. It has a pinch-me-I'm-dreaming quality. It's very bourgeois, of course, and much more about the liberation of the consumer than the liberation of the democratic citizen.

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.

I think people have an appetite for VR at $200, $300, $400. It's something so new and improves so quickly, people do have an appetite to buy that. If people are getting a new VR headset every two or three years that's incredibly improved, you want to go do that.

The truth is I don't really like the world of plastic money: the great chip-and-pin double act of modern payment. I prefer cash. I don't like the idea of some distant clerk nodding each time I make a card purchase and quietly adding to my 'consumer profile.' I'm anti all cards.

This idea of 'cool capitalism' is still capitalism. It doesn't matter if Elon Musk quotes Nas.

You know why kids don't eat fruits? Because fruits don't have any mascots. Every sugary cereal has a bear or a rabbit going , 'Kid! Eat it! Eat it, eat it, eat it!' You're a kid, you're like, 'I got to get that cereal.'

My cosmetic range, easy4Men, is not going that well. It's meant to be for the no-nonsense man, but now I don't know if the no-nonsense man exists.